I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

It was no wonder they thought us to be immortal––our nightly celebrations put Olympus to shame.

Even before I knew Yoga in this life, I was into that kind of thing.

The freedom that I wanted as a kid would - probably would not have been good for me and not in the way in which I wanted it.

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

... it is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less.

We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.